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LAZADA secures US$100 million of funding and launches a new mobile shopping platform

June, 20th. LAZADA, Southeast Asia’s largest online shopping mall, today disclosed that Verlinvest, a Belgian family-owned, consumer-focused investment holding company, has joined the company as an investor. Existing investors Holtzbrinck Ventures, Kinnevik, Summit Partners and Tengelmann Group also participated in the financing round that injected about US$100 million of fresh capital into LAZADA’s German holding …

New 14 Bit 500 MS/s Digitizer with PCIe x8 Gen2 Interface : 4 synchronous input channels and 3GBytes/s streaming to PC!

20 June 2013. Swedish company, Strategic Test AB, has now released its next generation “UltraFast” PCIe instrumentation platform called UF4e. The new platform fulfills the multiple customer requests for increased streaming bandwidth and higher sampling rates. Acquisition data is stored inside the 4 GByte on-board buffer and can be read out at more than 3 …

RAPOO Launches its first 5GHz Advanced Wireless Combo Keyboard and Mouse 8900P with Intelligent Sensing Technology

The combo features Anti-interference Wireless Connectivity, Ultra-slim Floating Chocolate Buttons, 8 Hotkeys and Laser 4D Scroll wheel Mouse NEW DELHI / BANGALORE, India – June 20, 2013   RAPOO, a global leader in providing cutting-edge wireless peripheral products, has launched its Advanced wireless combo 8900P with 5GHz wireless connectivity.  8900P has an intelligent sensing technology …

SIPRI statement on President Obama’s speech in Berlin

  In his speech in Berlin today the United States President, Barack Obama, made a commitment to move towards the reduction, and ultimate elimination, of nuclear weapons. SIPRI welcomes the President’s statement. However, this is not the first time the President has made such a commitment, and it remains to be seen how Russia’s support …

Glass Lewis also supports all the proposals made by the Board of Directors of SCHMOLZ+BICKENBACH AG to the General Meeting and rejects all the proposals of the founding shareholders

Following the backing from leading global shareholder and voting rights consultant Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS), a second globally active shareholder, Glass Lewis & Co., has  announced that it fully supports all the proposals made by the Board of Directors of SCHMOLZ+ BICKENBACH AG to the General Meeting on 26 June 2013. Glass Lewis recommends approval of the …

Montegrappa “Keep Memory Alive”

It is always an honour and a blessing to be able to demonstrate commitment to the subjects chosen to be celebrated as Montegrappa pens. The most readily-available means to show our respect for a subject is to support a related charitable venture. When it came to a pen as esoteric as the Brain, we were …

First Data Global Study Reveals That Consumers Worldwide Seek the Same Technology Experience

19 Jun 2013 Smartphone usage driving shift to more seamless, personal interactions ATLANTA, June 19, 2013 – Country by country, consumers want it all, and they want it in the palm of their hand. According to a global study released today by First Data, consumers worldwide expect strikingly similar mobile and technology-powered experiences from large and small businesses …

Siemens and LanzaTech partner to transform steel mill off-gases into bioethanol

    • Biological fermentation process converts CO and CO2 into bioethanol and platform chemicals • Process uses energy contained in steel plant off-gases • Ten-year co-operation to develop and market integrated environmental solutions for the steel industry worldwide Siemens Metals Technologies and LanzaTech have signed a ten-year co-operation agreement to develop and market integrated …